I found that the nehemic service was causing my frame rate issues and a lot of stutter. I disabled that service, and it was mostly back to normal, however the sound was terrible since that service is associated with the sound.
I updated windows, and for some reason it all works better now with the nahemic service back enabled.
I'm really not sure what fixed the issue, or if it still exists, but I really blame the alienware command center since that thing has been a constant cause if problems.
The nahemic service is embedded into the AWCC, not a standalone program.
damn.. stuttering came back.
